Skylark

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Claudette Colbert, Ray Meland and Brian Ahern in Skylark. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demille.

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Once upon a time, a young actress asked me how she could learn more about acting. I told her to see every picture Claudette Colbert made. So whether Claudette knows it or not, she's running a dramatic school on the side for some time.

Tonight, she co-stars with Ray Milan and Brian Ahern. Ray has spent a good part of the last year working in my picture, Reap the Wild Wind. Perhaps it's natural for a producer to be proud of his own stars.

So I let his performance speak for itself. And you all know what to expect from Brian Ahern, after his fine work here in the past. These three stars, teamed in Skylark at Paramount, and it's their first appearance here together.

The play which brings them together was written by Samson Rafelson, and had a long run on Broadway before it became a picture. Skylark is the story of a woman with a fight on her hands, a fight to keep her husband.

But the situation which threatens her home is no ordinary triangle, and the way it works out, received the approval of both motion picture and Broadway theatre audiences. It's a very modern story about a very modern woman, the clear thinking, smart dressing, and luck's toilet soap type of woman.

There are many like her in this broad land, and today they're all facing a challenge. Changes are taking place that give American women far larger and more important responsibilities in the economic scheme of things.